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New forensic tools aid the fight against sexual assault and other...
Now two European projects have developed technologies to improve ways of finding the microscopic material needed to ensure a conviction. One – from French...Read More
Environmental DNA revealed a 2 two million-year-old biodiversity in Greenland.
The oldest known DNA revealed that Greenland was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now-extinct mastodon.Read More
Three New Biomarkers to detect OXIZID consumption.
They then narrowed down the selection to three metabolites that could serve as reference urinary biomarkers to detect OXIZID consumption. The metabolites were identified...Read More
Fentanyl has potential for leading to safer pain-relieving drug.
chemically linking fentanyl to the sodium pockets that exist within nerve cell receptors, they could block the drug’s harmful side effects and still reduce...Read More
Deep UV System for Fingerprint Recognition Improved.
Research team used the Ga-rich component design and developed amorphous GaOx (a-GaOx) photo-synapses with enhanced persistent photoconductivity (PPC) effects. A non-linear mapping relationship for...Read More
New Technique to Analyze Fentanyl in Blood, Urine
team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists has developed a new technique to analyze fentanyl in human blood and urine samples that...Read More
A Technology to Advance DNA Analysis, Developed by Wisconsin
Scientists at a Wisconsin headquartered in Dane County have developed new technology that has the potential to change DNA analysis across the globe. It's...Read More
Scotland ‘the first country in world’ to publish Code of Practice...
Scotland has become the first nation in the world to publish a special code that governs the use of DNA and other biometrics data...Read More
Forensic Advancements link Two Brothers to 1988 Rape
A 34-year-old sexual assault case was closed earlier this week with the arrest of George Thomas Jr., 61, of Arlington. George Thomas Jr. was charged with...Read More
Is Environmental DNA the Future of Forensic Testing?
Organisms shed their DNA into the environment as skin particles, cells, and liquids, even while still alive. When these DNA fragments are sequenced they...Read More
Detecting Nuclear Threats with Artificial Reasoning
New research from PNNL uses machine learning, data analytics, and artificial reasoning to make threat detection and forensic analysis in the nuclear domain easier...Read More
Can pets help in Crime Solving?
For the first time, Flinders University forensic science researchers have examined the presence and transfer of human DNA on pets such as cats and...Read More
New research gives the potential for more accurate methamphetamine detection.
The research - conducted with The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), New Zealand - analyses the retention of methamphetamine residues on different...Read More
DNA on the blood-stained knife matches the suspect: DNA Analyst testified.
The DNA of Babul Mia, a Bangladeshi accused of killing Shah Alam was found on the handle of a knife recovered from the crime...Read More
Investigators looking for DNA Differences between identical twins
In a rape case in Drenthe, the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) was trying to develop a way to distinguish the DNA of the suspect's...Read More
A tool to speed up DNA sample turnaround times
Forensic Science professor and Director of Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, claims he is working on a device that will allow authorities...Read More
DNA from Drop of Blood Yields Arrest in a Double Murder
A drop of blood subjected to modern DNA testing enabled Vermont State Police detectives to arrest the culprit in the 1989 murder of a...Read More
Postmortem shows Shiau was attacked even after her death: Police
The postmortem report of Shiau Mohamed Saeed, who was found brutally murdered in August, showed that she had been stabbed several times in various...Read More
Bitemark Analysis Not Supported by Sufficient Data – NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reviewed the scientific foundations of bitemark analysis, a forensic technique in which marks on the...Read More
Technology detects Opioids overdose and immediately delivers naloxone to reverse it
Rescue Biomedical has received a Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop its technology that detects...Read More
Elk Valley Jane Doe IDed nearly four decades later
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Teams with Othram to Identify Elk Valley Jane Doe. The child whose skeletal remains were found nearly four decades ago...Read More
A young woman was found dead with severe injuries inside a...
A woman was found dead with injuries inside a house in the city. The arms and legs of the deceased were amputated, and her...Read More
Using AI for Better Forensic Bruise Analysis
Image analysis using deep learning, a sub-domain of machine learning, has demonstrated significant benefits in accuracy and reliability within health care; yet few studies...Read More
The Maldives to conduct Post-mortems on unknown deaths.
Maldives: A rule on post-mortems has been enacted to give police the power to conduct post-mortems to determine the cause of death.Read More
The first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome
Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human...Read More
Genetic Geneology Solved Case Based on Record Low Amount of DNA
The case represents a landmark in the use of forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) as the decades-old DNA sample used to identify Roxanne's assailant was...Read More
High Court upholds 10-yr sentence for child molester
Maldivian High Court has upheld the ten-year prison sentence by the Hithadhoo Magistrate Court against Child molester, Hassan Ameen, (S. Hithadhoo, Huraa) who was...Read More
Maldives mandated “Rape Kit” for victims of a sexual offense
The first amendment to the Sexual Offences Act (Law No. 17/2014) was ratified by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Monday (December 6, 2021), upon...Read More
How Familial DNA Evidence Led to Arrest in ’99 Cold Case...
The body of Minerliz Soriano was found wrapped in plastic inside a dumpster behind what used to be a a Hollywood Video store by...Read More
1991 homicide victim known as ‘Tiger Lady’ identified
Authorities will provide more details Friday about how they identified the body of a 1991 homicide victim in New Jersey known by her tattoo...Read More